I mention that routine because last week I felt like a victim of Sandburg’s non-wrath when Twitter’s anti-school reform voices suggested school reformers were wearing facial egg because “King” LeBron James’ celebrated new school opened in Akron, Ohio as a “traditional” public school rather than a charter.
Frankly, I didn’t get the joke.
Why would charter school supporters feel rebuffed by a new school opening in a city that desperately needs new schools?
Diane Ravitch and her digital accessories told us. I guess reform robots are such one-dimensional creatures that we expect every new school to be a charter.
“I salute LeBron James for investing his funding in a public school, not a charter school,” Ravich crowed.
That’s a tired language trick intended to frame charters as unpublic. It’s an intentional mark of dishonesty. As she said years ago: “charter schools are public schools.”